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Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: There will be a surplus of between €2 billion and €3 billion which will be remitted in full to the taxpayer. In terms of getting taxpayers' money back-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: -----NAMA has done its job.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: On the other questions, the House establishes commissions of inquiry and we have established a number of them at this stage. They require a great deal of work by judges, lawyers and others and they are expensive for the taxpayer. We have set up a tribunal of inquiry as well, along with other inquiries. It is high time we allowed those inquiries to do their work-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: -----and not second-guess their work while they are doing it or have parallel inquiries in this House.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: We have seen some of the results from the disclosures tribunal in Dublin Castle. We know-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: -----Deputies raised and made allegations in the Dáil and we now know from what has emerged in Dublin Castle that those allegations were false. I have yet to hear those Deputies withdraw the allegations. They should do so.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I will return to that, incidentally.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I think that is wrong.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I absolutely have an appetite for the truth. That is why the commission of inquiry was established. I look forward to it completing its work and making its findings, and I will not jump to conclusions. A commission of investigation has been established by this Oireachtas. It will carry out its inquiries and produce its findings. I ask Deputy Wallace not to jump to conclusions either....

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: It is an agency of the Dublin archdiocese and it provides services for people who are homeless and helps to operate some of the family hubs. I also include bodies such as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which does such important work with disadvantaged families around the country. I hope it is not the policy of the Socialist Party or Solidarity–People Before Profit to stop...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: As I indicated when it comes to the abortion legislation, just as is the case with the Protection of Life in Pregnancy Act, the conscientious objection will apply to individuals; it will not apply to institutions. Under that legislation, enacted by this Dáil in 2013, voluntary hospitals that have a Catholic ethos are required to provide the service if it is necessary. It will be the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: That silence was, perhaps, deafening. I believe in the separation of church and state-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: -----but I do not believe in the socialist ideology, which is to push religion out of the public space and to force people who are religious to be ashamed they have religious conviction and-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: -----to hide them in a corner and to defund bodies and take public funding away from bodies such as the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Crosscare, Trócaire and Concern.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: The policy of socialists is to take away that funding because they do not just believe in the separation of church and state; they want to turn religious people into pariahs, put them in a corner and hide them and take away funding from institutions.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: -----and to help us understand whether they were the result of misreadings or ambiguous readings.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: The model we intend to follow for the abortion legislation, when we are able to publish it and bring it through the Oireachtas, is precisely the model used for the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, which the House passed in 2013. That legislation will allow individuals to opt out based on their consciences or religious convictions but will not allow institutions to do so. As is the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy has asked the same question again and I can only give the same answer. There are reasons there may be delays in providing records but it is Government policy that records, samples and files, whether they are in electronic or paper format, along with X-rays and other radiology scans, should be provided to patients when requested. The direction has been given to the public bodies...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: The Department's legal adviser for the cases has confirmed this.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I also welcome Mayor Farrell to the Chamber. I had the opportunity to visit San Francisco last year and met his predecessor, Mayor Lee, who very kindly presented me with the keys to the city of San Francisco. As the House knows, there is a very special relationship between San Francisco and the city of Cork in particular, and I was really very sorry to hear of Mayor Lee's untimely death....